Defining Social Media Settings

By Junaid Asad
Published: September 7, 2009
“UX professionals must now take up a new design challenge. We must address the changing needs for social media and facilitate users’ taking better advantage of everything social media has to offer.” In a previous article for UXmatters, “The Social Buzz: Designing User Experiences for Social Media,” I discussed the phenomenal rise and fast-spreading influence of social media and how UX professionals are ideally placed to establish interaction patterns for social media and drive user interface designs and information architectures for environments that require a social context for optimal use. As we explore what social technologies can offer and the boundaries they can cross—boundaries that had confined the traditional Web—UX professionals must now take up a new design challenge. We must address the changing needs for social media and facilitate users’ taking better advantage of everything social media has to offer.
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